Sleeping-car berth



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S. SHAW.

'SLEEPING UAR BERTH,

Patented July 26,1881.

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-UNITED STATES APATENT OFFICE.

SUMNER SHAW, OF BOSTON, MASSAOHUSETIS.

SLEEPING-CAR BERTH.

SPECIFIGATIONiforraing part of Letters Patent No. 244,772, dated July 26, 1881.

Application filed .inn e, ieei. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, SU'MNER SHAW, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sleeping-Car Berths 5 and4 I do hereby decla-re that the same are fully described in the following specification, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

This inv'ention relates to improvements in sleeping-car berths, its object being to relieve the occupant ot' the shake and jar in a vertical direction, as is the case in the ordinary rigid berths, and also to prevent the quick vivbratory motion of the berth, both in a longition of a railway-car as provided with my im-U Fig. 2 vrepresents a vertical vsection of one-half ofthe car on the line' A proved berths.

B, shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a horizontal section on the line C D, shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 represents a detail view of a portion ot' the top of the stationary division between the seats, and a part of one of the supportingbars for the lower berth. Fig. 5 represents a section on the line E F, shown in Fig. 4.

Similar letters refer to similar parts whereever they occur on. the. different parts of the drawings. 4

a represents the tloor of a railway-car, on which b is the side and c the top with its monitor c', as usual.

d d d d represent -the chairs or seats, as usual, and eerepresent stationary partitions between eaeh pair of chairs or seats d d d d.

j' f represent detachable backs for` the seats or chairs, which backs are removed when the compartment is to be used for sleeping purposes, as shown in the middleportion of Fig. 1.

g represents the bed-bottom for theupper berth, which is suspended from above by means ofthe elastic spiral-spring supports g g g g',

secured in a suitable manner in their lower ends to the bed-bottom g, and in their upper ends to the roof c of the car, or to brackets or suitable supports attached to said roof, asmay be most convenient.

h represents the bed-bottom for the lower berth, which is also suspended from above by means of the elastic expansion spiral-spring supports h h l1. h', secured in a suitable manner in their lower ends to the bed-bottom h, and in their upper ends to apair of supporting-bara@l this exact arrangement of the supporting-bars i t' for the lower berth, h, it being only necessary to provide a suitable support ou the partitions e e for the bars i i.

g" g" are slotted openings in the ends of the upper 'bed-bottom; g, and h h are similar slotted openings in the ends of the 'lower bed-bottom, h, as shown, which, in combination with the stationary vertical guide rods or posts k k, that pass through said slotted openings g', and h, lserve as guides during the yielding,

upward, downward, forward, and back mocovering materials, if it should-so be desired.

When the berths are not to be Ain use the rsprings g' h' are detached from their'upper or lower or both supports, andthe bars i t', as well as the berths and their beddings, removed or swung to the side of the car, or otherwise disposed of, as may be most convenient, according to the particular construction of the car on which they are used. l l are detachable partitions, as usual, between the sections of the car.

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3. In :L sleeping-oar, the yielding hed-bottom h, suspended by the spiral springs h h'7in combination with the supporting-bars i i and supi5 ports e c, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

SUMNER SHAW.

Witnesses ALBAN ANDRN, HENRY CHADBOURNE. 

